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Deep Generative Modeling

LACU

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[arXiv]

Locality-aware continual unlearning (LACU), a framework that stabilizes sequential concept removal

ECCV26

GUDA

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[arXiv]

Efficiently estimate which training data groups influenced diffusion model outputs

ICML26

Demystifying MaskGIT

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[arXiv]

Theoretically analyzes the MaskGIT sampler, poviding a choose-then-sample (CTS) formulation

TMLR
Featured Certification

MF-RAE

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[arXiv]

Training flow-map models in RAE latent with consistency mid-training for trajectory-aware initialization

CVPR26

ConceptTRAK

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[arXiv]

A framework for Identify which training examples influenced specific concepts within the diffusion model

ICLR26

CMT

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[arXiv]

CMT reduces the training cost of diffusion-based flow map models by up to 90% while reaching SOTA performance

ICLR26

CODA

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[arXiv]

Improved object-centric diffusion learning with registers and contrastive alignment

ICLR26

Improved CFG

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[arXiv]

An improved mechanism for applying classifier-free guidance in discrete diffusion

ICLR26

SONA

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[arXiv]

Learning conditional, unconditional, and matching-aware discriminator with adaptive weighting mechanism (cSAN)

ICLR26

G2D2

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[arXiv]

Leveraging discrete diffusion models as priors for inverse problems

TMLR
J2C Certification

TLoRA

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[arXiv]

Propose tensor-decomposition-based PEFT method, showing its effectiveness on T-to-I generation tasks

ICCV25

Di4C

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[arXiv] [code]

Theoretical analysis of limitation of current discrete diffusion and a method for effectively capturing element-wise dependency

ICML25

VCT

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[arXiv] [code]

Improving Consistency Training with a learned data-noise coupling

ICML25

Memorization

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[arXiv] [code]

Classifier-Free Guidance inside the Attraction Basin May Cause Memorization

CVPR25

Jump Your Steps

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[arXiv]

A general method to find an optimal sampling schedule for inference in discrete diffusion

ICLR25

HERO-DM

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[arXiv] [demo]

A method efficiently leverages online human feedback to fine-tune Stable Diffusion for various range of tasks

ICLR25

WPSE

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[arXiv]

An enhanced multimodal representation using weighted point clouds and its theoretical benefits

ICLR25
Spotlight

PaGoDA

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[arXiv]

A 64x64 pre-trained diffusion model is all you need for 1-step high-resolution SOTA generation

NeurIPS24

CTM

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[arXiv] [demo]

Unified framework enables diverse samplers and 1-step generation SOTAs

ICLR24

Applications:
[SoundGen]

SAN

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

Enhancing GAN with metrizable discriminators

ICLR24

Applications:
[Vocoder]

MPGD

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[arXiv] [demo]

Fast, Efficient, Training-Free, and Controllable diffusion-based generation method

ICLR24

HQ-VAE

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[OpenReview] [arXiv]

Generalizing hierarchical VQ-VAEs with a Bayesian framework

TMLR

FP-Diffusion

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[PMLR] [code]

Improving density estimation of diffusion

ICML23

GibbsDDRM

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[PMLR] [code]

Achieving blind inversion using DDPM

ICML23
Oral

Applications:
[DeReverb] [SpeechEnhance]

SQ-VAE

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[PMLR] [arXiv] [code]

Improving codebook utilization and training stability

ICML22

AR-ELBO

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[Elsevier] [arXiv]

Mitigating oversmoothness in VAE

Neurocomputing

Multimodal NLP

MCA

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[EMNLP] [arXiv] [code]

MCA: Modality Composition Awareness for Robust Composed Multimodal Retrieval

EMNLP26

MLLMCLIP

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[EMNLP] [arXiv] [code]

MLLMCLIP: Feature-Level Distillation of MLLM for Robust Vision-Language Representations

EMNLP26

Syn-Omni

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[EMNLP] [arXiv] [code]

Syn-Omni: Structured Specialization and Progressive Collaboration for Omnimodal Embeddings

EMNLP26

DynaVieW

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[ICML] [arXiv] [code]

DynaVieW: Schema-Guided World Modeling for Understanding Hierarchical Visual Dynamics

ICML26

LRPO

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[ICML] [arXiv] [code]

Learning to Route Languages for Multilingual Policy Optimization

ICML26

DeepResonance

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[EMNLP] [arXiv] [code]

DeepResonance: Enhancing Multimodal Music Understanding via Music-centric Multi-way Instruction Tuning

EMNLP25

CARE

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[EMNLP] [arXiv] [data]

CARE: Assessing the Impact of Multilingual Human Preference Learning on Cultural Awareness

EMNLP25

BiAug

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[MRR@ICCV25] [arXiv]

Towards reporting bias in visual-language datasets: bimodal augmentation by decoupling object-attribute association

ICCV25 MRR Workshop

GLOV

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[TMLR] [arXiv]

GLOV: Guided Large Language Models as Implicit Optimizers for Vision Language Models

TMLR

Music-to-MVD

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[RepL4NLP@NAACL25] [arXiv]

Cross-Modal Learning for Music-to-Music-Video Description Generation

NAACL25 RepL4NLP Workshop

VinaBench

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[CVPR] [arXiv] [data]

VinaBench: Benchmark for Faithful and Consistent Visual Narratives

CVPR25

OpenMU

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[arXiv] [data] [demo]

OpenMU: Your Swiss Army Knife for Music Understanding

ISMIR2024 Late Breaking Demos

DiffuCOMET

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[ACL] [arXiv] [code]

DiffuCOMET: Contextual Commonsense Knowledge Diffusion

ACL24

CyCLIPs/CyCLAPs

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[ACL] [arXiv]

On the Language Encoder of Contrastive Cross-modal Models

ACL24

DIIR

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[ACL] [arXiv] [code]

Few-shot Dialogue Strategy Learning for Motivational Interviewing via Inductive Reasoning

ACL24

PeaCok

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[ACL] [arXiv] [code]

PeaCoK: Persona Commonsense Knowledge for Consistent and Engaging Narratives
(Outstanding Paper Award)

ACL23

ComFact

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[EMNLP] [arXiv] [code]

ComFact: A Benchmark for Linking Contextual Commonsense Knowledge

EMNLP22 Findings

Music Technologies

LLM2Fx-Tools

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[arXiv] [demo]

Tool Calling For Music Post-Production

ICLR26

MEGAMI

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

Automatic music mixing using a generative model of effect embeddings

ICASSP26

Sampling Identification

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[arXiv] [code]

Automatic Music Sample Identification with Multi-Track Contrastive Learning

ICASSP26

Lyrics Matching

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[arXiv] [code]

Leveraging Whisper Embeddings for Audio-based Lyrics Matching

ICASSP26

Training Data Attribution

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[arXiv]

Large-Scale Training Data Attribution for Music Generative Models via Unlearning

NeurIPS25 Creative AI

Beyond GenAI Music

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[url]

Reductive, exclusionary, normalising: The limits of generative AI music

TISMIR

LLM2FX

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[arXiv] [code] [demo] [dataset]

Can Large Language Models Predict Audio Effects Parameters from Natural Language?

WAASPA25

Vocal Effects Style Transfer

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

Inference-Time Optimisation for Vocal Effects Style Transfer using DiffVox

WAASPA25

Fx-Encoder++

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[arXiv] [code]

SOTA Fx representation: Extract instrument-wise audio effects representations from music mixtures

ISMIR25

ITO-Master

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

Inference Time Optimization for Music Mastering Style Transfer

ISMIR25

GRAFx (ext.)

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[JAES] [code] [demo]

Reverse Engineering of Music Mixing Graphs with Differentiable Processors and Iterative Pruning

JAES

CLEWS

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[arXiv]

Supervised contrastive learning from weakly-labeled audio segments for musical version matching

ICML25

MFM as Generic Booster

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[OpenReview] [arXiv]

Music Foundation Model as Generic Booster for Music Downstream Tasks

TMLR

DiffVox

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[arXiv] [code] [demo] [audio]

DiffVox: A Differentiable Model for Capturing and Analysing Professional Effects Distributions

DAFx25

Variable Bitrate RVQ

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[arXiv]

VRVQ: Variable Bitrate Residual Vector Quantization for Audio Compression

ICASSP25

Instr. Timbre Transfer

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]  

Latent Diffusion Bridges for Unsupervised Musical Audio Timbre Transfer

ICASSP25

Mixing Graph Estimation

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

Searching For Music Mixing Graphs: A Pruning Approach

DAFx24

Guitar Amp. Modeling

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[arXiv]

Improving Unsupervised Clean-to-Rendered Guitar Tone Transformation Using GANs and Integrated Unaligned Clean Data

DAFx24

Text-to-Music Editing

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

MusicMagus: Zero-Shot Text-to-Music Editing via Diffusion Models

IJCAI24

Instr.-Agnostic Trans.

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[IEEE] [arXiv]

Timbre-Trap: A Low-Resource Framework for Instrument-Agnostic Music Transcription

ICASSP24

Vocal Restoration

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[IEEE] [arXiv] [demo]

VRDMG: Vocal Restoration via Diffusion Posterior Sampling with Multiple Guidance

ICASSP24

hFT-Transformer

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[arXiv] [code]

Automatic Piano Transcription with Hierarchical Frequency-Time Transformer

ISMIR23

Automatic Music Tagging

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[arXiv]

An Attention-based Approach To Hierarchical Multi-label Music Instrument Classification

ICASSP23

Vocal Dereverberation

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[arXiv] [demo]

Unsupervised Vocal Dereverberation with Diffusion-based Generative Models

ICASSP23

Mixing Style Transfer

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

Music Mixing Style Transfer: A Contrastive Learning Approach to Disentangle Audio Effects

ICASSP23

Music Transcription

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

DiffRoll: Diffusion-based Generative Music Transcription with Unsupervised Pretraining Capability

ICASSP23

Singing Voice Vocoder

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[arXiv] [demo]

Hierarchical Diffusion Models for Singing Voice Neural Vocoder

ICASSP23

Distortion Effect Removal

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[poster] [arXiv] [demo]

Distortion Audio Effects: Learning How to Recover the Clean Signal

ISMIR22

Automatic Music Mixing

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[poster] [arXiv] [code] [demo]

Automatic Music Mixing with Deep Learning and Out-of-Domain Data

ISMIR22

Sound Separation

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[IEEE]

Music Source Separation with Deep Equilibrium Models

ICASSP22

Automatic DJ Transition

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

Automatic DJ Transitions with Differentiable Audio Effects and Generative Adversarial Networks

ICASSP22

Singing Voice Conversion

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[arXiv] [demo]

Robust One-Shot Singing Voice Conversion

Sound Separation

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[video] [site]

Glenn Gould and Kanji Ishimaru 2021: A collaboration with AI Sound Separation after 60 years

Cinematic Technologies

OmniUE

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[arXiv] [demo]

Omni-Interactive Universal Embedder

NeurIPS26

ST-AudioLM

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[arXiv]

Spatio-Temporal Audio Language Modeling for Dynamic Sound Sources

EMNLP26

Odoriko

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[arXiv] [demo]

Odoriko: A Shape-Aware Multimodal Diffusion Framework for Human Motion

ECCV26

Spectral Alignment (SPA)

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[arXiv] [code]

Spectral Prior for Reducing Exposure Bias in Diffusion Models

ECCV26

Step-by-Step V2A

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[arXiv] [demo]

Step-by-Step Video-to-Audio Synthesis via Negative Audio Guidance

ECCV26

PAVAS

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[CVF] [arXiv] [demo]

PAVAS: a framework for generating physically plausible audio from video, by integrating physics estimation

CVPR26
Oral

Echoes Over Time

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[CVF] [arXiv] [demo]

Echoes Over Time: Unlocking Length Generalization in Video-to-Audio Generation Models

CVPR26

VIRTUE

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[OpenReview] [arXiv] [code] [dataset] [collection]

VIRTUE: Visual-Interactive Text-Image Universal Embedder

ICLR26

Diffiner for SE & SS

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[IEEE] [arXiv]

A diffusion-based post-processor for perceptually improving speech enhancement and separation outputs

TASLP

CCStereo

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[ACM] [arXiv] [code]

CCStereo: Audio-Visual Contextual and Contrastive Learning for Binaural Audio Generation

ACMMM25

TITAN-Guide

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[CVF] [arXiv] [code] [demo]

TITAN-Guide: Taming Inference-Time AligNment for Guided Text-to-Video Diffusion Models

ICCV25

MMAudio

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[CVF] [arXiv] [code] [demo]

MMAudio: Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis

CVPR25

MMDisCo

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[OpenReview] [arXiv] [code]

MMDisCo: Multi-Modal Discriminator-Guided Cooperative Diffusion for Joint Audio and Video Generation

ICLR25

SoundCTM

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[OpenReview] [arXiv] [code] [demo]

SoundCTM: Unifying Score-based and Consistency Models for Full-band Text-to-Sound Generation

ICLR25

Mining Your Own Secrets

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[OpenReview] [arXiv]

Mining Your Own Secrets: Diffusion Classifier Scores for Continual Personalization of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

ICLR25

GenWarp

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[arXiv] [demo]

GenWarp: Single Image to Novel Views with Semantic-Preserving Generative Warping

NeurIPS24

SpecMaskGIT

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[arXiv] [demo]

SpecMaskGIT: Masked Generative Modeling of Audio Spectrograms for Efficient Audio Synthesis and Beyond

ISMIR24

Acoustic Inv. Rendering

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[CVF] [arXiv] [dataset] [code] [demo]

Hearing Anything Anywhere

CVPR24

BigVSAN Vocoder

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[arXiv] [code] [demo]

BigVSAN: Enhancing GAN-based Neural Vocoders with Slicing Adversarial Network

ICASSP24

Zero-/Few-shot SELD

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[IEEE] [arXiv]

Zero- and Few-shot Sound Event Localization and Detection

ICASSP24

STARSS23

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[arXiv] [dataset]

STARSS23: An Audio-Visual Dataset of Spatial Recordings of Real Scenes with Spatiotemporal Annotations of Sound Events

NeurIPS23

Audio Restoration: ViT-AE

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[IEEE] [arXiv] [demo]

Extending Audio Masked Autoencoders Toward Audio Restoration

WASPAA23

Diffiner

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[ISCA] [arXiv] [code]

Diffiner: A Versatile Diffusion-based Generative Refiner for Speech Enhancement

INTERSPEECH23

CLIPSep

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[OpenReview] [arXiv] [code] [demo]

CLIPSep: Learning Text-queried Sound Separation with Noisy Unlabeled Videos

ICLR23

Sound Event Localization and Detection

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[IEEE] [arXiv]

Multi-ACCDOA: Localizing and Detecting Overlapping Sounds from the Same Class with Auxiliary Duplicating Permutation Invariant Training

ICASSP22

Hosted Challenges

DCASE Challenge Task 3

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[DCASE Challenge2026]

Semantic Acoustic Imaging for Sound Event Localization and Detection from Spatial Audio and Audiovisual Scenes

CPD Challenge 2025

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[CPD Challenge 2025]

Commonsense Persona-grounded Dialogue Challenge 2025

SVG Challenge 2024

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[SVG Challenge 2024]

Sounding Video Generation Challenge 2024

CPD Challenge 2023

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[CPD Challenge 2023]

Commonsense Persona-grounded Dialogue Challenge

SDX Challenge 2023

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[site] [paper (music)] [paper (cinematic)]

Sound Demixing Challenge 2023

MDX Challenge 2021

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[site] [frontiers]

Music Demixing Challenge 2021

Contact

Yuki Mitsufuji (yuhki.mitsufuji@sony.com)